Drug discovery startup ArrePath announced Thursday it has raised $20 million in a seed funding round led by the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Insight Partners and Innospark Ventures.
Other participants in the round include Viva BioInnovator, Arimed Capital, PTX Capital and Nor’easter Ventures. The company, which focuses on developing new types of anti-infective drugs to best antimicrobial...
Diagnostics giant Labcorp is stepping deeper into the digital health space with the launch of Labcorp OnDemand, an online platform where users can order tests and possibly collect samples at home.
Patients choose tests through the platform and a physician can approve and review requests without a required doctor's visit. Some tests allow patients to collect samples in their homes, while others...
Solv, maker of an urgent care appointment-booking app, is looking to expand its services into the testing space with a new product aimed at connecting consumers to lab services.
The tool lets users find and book local test labs for 25 different services, including blood tests, drug tests, HIV tests, STD tests and diabetes tests. Users are also able to use the service to find a COVID-19 test....
A few weeks ago, when we revisited Eric Topol's top 10 digital health predictions, Topol mentioned microfluidics -- and the ability to create home versions of medical lab tests -- as one of the unexpected breakthroughs of the last five years.
"All the routine labs could be run through the smartphone with a very simple microfluidic adapter — any lab test could," he said at the time. "Then there’s...
